Biography

Dr. Tarja Laine (Finland, 1971), Assistant Professor in Film Studies, is the author of
Bodies in Pain: Emotion and the Cinema of Darren Aronofsky (2015),
Feeling Cinema: Emotional Dynamics in Film Studies (2011) and
Shame and Desire: Emotion, Intersubjectivity, Cinema (2007). Her essays on emotions and sensations in cinema and media have been published in journals such as
Film-Philosophy,
Midwest Studies in Philosophy,
Media, Culture & Society,
Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, Studies in European Cinema,
New Review of Film and Television Studies,
PostScript and
Film and Philosophy . Her research interests include cinematic emotions, film aesthetics and film-phenomenology.

Selected Publications

Books

Bodies in Pain: Emotion and the Cinema of Darren Aronofsky. New York: Berghahn Books, 2015.